[WikiEN-l] Should articles explain pronunciation?

zero 0000 nought_0000 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 28 14:06:35 UTC 2004


--- Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Should Wikipedia articles, in their first paragraph, explain the 
> pronunciation of the word that is the article title?

Pronunciation is useful information in the cases where it will
not be obvious to a typical English speaker.  "Uranus" and many
foreign words are examples.

World Book is an example of a professional encyclopedia that
gives pronunciations.

Zero.



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